Last week we ran a poll on which YouTube apps were best on Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone. The results are in and the people have spoken. Here are the winners and a couple of honorary mentions along ...

Whether you want it or not, Microsoft will release its Windows 8 operating system on October 26. The new OS upends the familiar Start menu-based interface you’ve known since Windows 95 in favor of one ...

Where are the apps? That's the question we asked in our review of the Microsoft Surface, and it's one of the bigger question marks plaguing Microsoft's Windows 8 launch. At today's Build 2012 kick-off ...

The Windows 8 Consumer Preview might be worth another look thanks to a new round of Metro-style apps available now. The new Windows 8 apps include a Facebook and Twitter client called FlipToast, the ...

Microsoft has a few Xbox apps for Windows 8, including Xbox Music and Xbox Video, but it seems the Redmond giant is also working on another application to serve the reading needs of Windows 8 users.

Windows 8 has two environments: the full screen, touch-centric Windows Store App interface (also called Metro) and the Desktop interface, which looks and acts like Windows 7. If you install programs ...

Windows Blue may clean up some of Windows 8’s rough edges, but it won’t fix one of Windows 8’s core problems: The apps it ships with are rotten. Michael Cherry, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft ...

Last week we looked at how to shut down Windows 8 and how to boot directly to the Desktop -- two of the most irksome Windows 8 quirks -- and today, in our continuing series of Windows 8 tips and ...

Speaking at the firm's Build developers conference in San Francisco, Microsoft's Steve Guggenheimer has hinted that developers working on Windows 8 apps may also be able to release said titles on Xbox ...